Warden, Cleaver

Student file of Cleaver Warden, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and departed on June 14, 1887.  The file contains a student information card, a former student survey postcard, a returned student survey, letters/correspondence, and a report after leaving. The file indicates Warden was a farmer in…

Student information card of Cleaver Warden, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on September 9, 1880 and departed on June 14, 1887. The file indicates Warden was married and living in Carlton, Oklahoma in 1913.

Student file of Eva Rogers, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on November 14, 1889 and departed on July 3, 1902. The file contains student information cards and a report after leaving indicating Rogers was a housewife in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1910.

In school documentation Eva Rogers has two married names. One is…

Student file of Oscar Warden, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 7, 1892 and departed on January 3, 1894. The file contains correspondences, a returned student survey and a report after leaving indicating he was a school disciplinarian in Rosebud, South Dakota in 1911.

In school documentation Oscar Warden…

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The first page opened with a poem by E.G. titled "After Carlisle, What?” followed by the next installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” (continued from the previous week). The story continued on the fourth page.…

Studio portrait of five male students and four female students.

They are, back row, left to right: Frank West, George Summers, Percy Zadoka, Warden Cleaver; front row, left to right: Annie Thomas, Minnie Yellow Bear, Pollock Spotted Tail, Hattie Longwolf, and Harriet Mary Elder. 

Studio portrait of nine students. Back row, left to right: Frank West, George Summers, Percy Zadoka, Warden Cleaver; front row, left to right: Annie Thomas, Minnie Yellow Bear, Pollock Spotted Tail, Hattie Longwolf, and Harriet Mary Elder. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has three copies of this image: PA-CH1-004, 10-B-17…

Studio portrait of Percy Zadoka and Cleaver Warden.

Photo taken of visiting Cheyenne and Arapahoe Chiefs with Carlisle students and government employees at Devil's Den at the Gettysburg battlefield. The image is dated November 28, 1884.

One person is identified only as "Kise." It is not known if this is Kise (Red Wolf) or Kise Williams. 

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain. Pratt notes many students who were expected to…

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.

Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of 80 students to return to their homes due to expiration of their terms and sickness. Pratt also details the travel arrangements for travel to the various agencies and locations. He also notes that 68 pupils whose terms have expired have elected to remain at the school.